This would be a Good Thing (tm). Debian-doc has livened up again over the past few months, and it seems like several people are writing now. I've cc:'ed debian-doc, Oliver (who's coordinating most of the work) and Dale, as he's already written a Debian book. Plus, with a publisher interested, they might be able to put a paid person on coordinating the effort, and that would be invaluable to the documentation effort IMO.
Nils. In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Di Carlo writes: > >IDG, a publishing house who have authored the famous "<foo> for >Dummies" line of books, among others, have approached me about writing >a Debian-related book for them. I don't know where they got my name; >perhaps from the Developer's Reference. > >To be honest, I'm rather at a loss, hence this email. On the one >hand, I think Debian really needs more shelf presence. The fact that >there are so few books about Debian out there (Hi, Dale) itself is >almost a reason not to go with it. OTOH, writing large amounts of >technical documentation seems like more than I'm going to be able to >handle (in addition to my real work--around 50-60 hrs/wk--and my >Debian work). > >Moreover, I'm not sure what the topic should be. My contact at IDG >has stated its generally better if the author(s) decide upon the >topic. She's amenable to one directed towards users, developers, or >whatever. > >I voiced to her my feeling that Debian documentation needs to be free >and to be re-integrated back into Debian itself; my contact at IDG >seemed amenable to that, although, obviously, nothing has gone thru >the legal dept. yet. > >One possibility would be to collect a lot of the stuff we already >have--pending the assent of the authors of course. We might be able >to get some cash for the authors who have done work so far. Obviously >a loto f work would be required to integrate stuff together. > >Nor do I know anything about compensation -- people familiar with the >industry know what to expect; I suppose it's decent but not >specatular. You'd have to expect that a Debian book isn't exactly >going to hit the bestseller list. > >Anyhow who has topic ideas, please feel free to reply to me and/or the >list. Anyone who is interested in either writing or contributing, >ditto. > >-- >.....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> > > >-- >Please respect the privacy of this mailing list. > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
